Green Building Policy
With ISO 14001 management processes for evaluating environmental
impact, Nissan makes it a key task to optimize its buildings in the
construction or refurbishing stages for making all its structures greener.
Evaluation metrics in this area include buildings with a smaller
environmental footprint, such as lower CO2 emissions; construction methods
producing less waste and emissions; and reduced use of hazardous
materials and other quality control tasks. Furthermore, in Japan Nissan uses
the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s Comprehensive
Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency (CASBEE) as one
performance index.
Among Nissan’s current business facilities, the Global Headquarters in
the city of Yokohama has earned CASBEE’s highest “S” ranking, making it
the second Nissan structure to do so following the Nissan Advanced
Technology Center (NATC) in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture.
The Global Headquarters gained a Built Environment Efficiency Rating
of 5.6, the high rating CASBEE for a new structure, making it one of Japan’s
greenest office buildings. The building’s use of natural energy sources to
reduce its energy usage and its CO2 emissions were highly evaluated, as
were its methods of water recycling and drastic reduction in waste produced.
Since April 2000, Nissan has been deploying unique environmental
facility certification system based on ISO 14001 for sales dealers called
Nissan Green Shop. The company’s environmental policy requires all dealers
in Japan to meet a certain standard and continue to be audited by Nissan
each year. The dedicated evaluation sheet has a total of 84 KPIs and is
regularly revised to reflect requirements from national legislation, local
communities and the Nissan Green Program.